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After all, we have exalted consumerism above other values.

From Time • Dec. 15, 2013

There are some old boats in the company," hissed he, ". . . who, because they have exalted egos since they have no competition for their roles, would like to be dictators of the Metropolitan.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is a new order of nobility that the press of our great cities and the pink and green pamphleteers of our literati have exalted to the highest place among us almost overnight.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mrs. Waite is a woman of fine mind, engaging manners, and great force of character, and is in every way worthy of the position in life to which her husband's distinguished abilities have exalted her.

From The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 1, January 1886 Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, January, 1886 by Various

The Germans have exalted him even more than Gustavus Adolphus.

From Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II. by Freytag, Gustav